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Off-Broadway Review: “The Bedwetter” at Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater (Closed Sunday, July 10, 2022)

June 13, 2022 | Off-Broadway, the bedwetter > | "The Bedwetter", Adam Schlesinger, Ahron R. Foster, Anne Kauffman, Ashley Blanchet, Atlantic Theater Company, Bebe Neuwirth, Caissie Levy, Charlotte Elizabeth Curtis, Charlotte MacLeod, costume design by Kaye Voyce, Darren Goldstein, dialects by Kate Wilson, Ellyn Marie Marsh, Emily Zimmerman, hair and wig design by Tom Watson, Joseph Verlezza, Joshua Harmon, lighting design by Japhy Weideman, Linda Gross Theater, Margot Weintraub, music direction by Henry Aronson, music supervision and coordination by Dean Sharenow, orchestrations by David Chase, projection design by Lucy Mackinnon, Richard Hodge, Rick Crom, Sarah Silverman, scenic design by Laura Jellinek, sound design by Kai Harada, Telsey + Company / Rachel Hoffman, Theatre Reviews Limited, Zoe Glick

Comedy is usually a successful way to approach any discussion about a difficult and awkward situation and often eases the tension surrounding the stigma that might be associated with the uncomfortable problem. Comedy writers have used this technique for years creating some of the most successful sitcoms that deal with controversial social issues. It may be more difficult to implement…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Exception to the Rule” at the Black Box Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center (Closed Sunday, June 26, 2022)

In “Exception to the Rule,” currently playing at the Black Box Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center, is playwright Dave Harris more concerned about what might be the exception to the rule in his play’s inner-city high school classroom or what is the rule that looms over classroom one eleven’s detainees on the last day of the week…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn” at Theater 555 (Closed Sunday, July 31, 2022)

There are times when a trip to the theatre should being nothing but fun and entertainment. A clever and ingenious musical performed by a remarkable cast is an additional bonus. One need to look no further than the stage of Theater 555 where the production of “Romeo and Bernadette” graces the stage and provides the audience a skillful and crafty…

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Broadway Review: “A Strange Loop” at the Lyceum Theatre (Currently On)

Two deeply significant plays by Jeremy O. Harris – “Daddy” (Off-Broadway 2019) and “Slave Play” (Broadway 2021) – highlighted significant issues about the self-identity of young black gay and queer men and raised rich and enduring questions about the role of family, friends, culture, and “indifferent yet fetishizing white gays” in that process of discovery. This season, Michael R. Jackson’s…

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Broadway Review: “Hangmen” at the Golden Theatre” (Closed on Saturday, June 18, 2022)

“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.” – “To A Mouse” by Robert Burns Despite his claim to be “quite content to keep [his] own counsel, as [he] sees fit, and leave the jibber-jabber to the riff-raff, the riff-raff,” former hangman Harry Wade (played with a menacing panache by David Threlfall) seems quite content to…

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Broadway Review: “for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf” at the Booth Theatre (Closed on Sunday, June 5, 2022)

“Since its premiere at The Public in 1976 and its subsequent transfer to Broadway later that year, much has happened to continue to impact the lives of the women of color celebrated by Ntozake Shange in her choreopoem “for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf” currently running at the Booth Theatre for the second time…

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Broadway Review: “Take Me Out” at Second Stage’s Helen Hayes Theatre (Closed on Sunday, June 11, 2022)

The revival of “Take Me Out” by Richard Greenberg which opened at The Helen Hayes Theater, in many ways does not feel as if it were written twenty years ago, given the current political climate and the conservative challenges of LGBTQ+ rights. The story about a major league baseball star surprisingly coming out in a public arena, deals with the…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Harmony” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage (Extended through Sunday, May 15, 2022)

The Comedian Harmonists was an internationally famous all-male German singing group that was formed during the Weimar period and was forced to disband in the early 1930’s when the Nazi regime came into power. The group consisted of six males, three of whom were Jewish or of Jewish decent and one that had married a Jewish woman. The story of…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Little Girl Blue: The Nina Simone Musical” at New World Stages (Through Sunday, May 22, 2022)

There is something very special happening at New World Stages that every ardent admirer of great musical legends and theatre enthusiast should see. “Little Girl Blue”, the new Nina Simone musical is a captivating journey into the life of the legendary singer and civil rights activist that weaves some of her well-known songs into the tragic episodes of her life….

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Broadway Review: “Six” at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre (Currently On)

Broadway has been graced with quite a bit of royalty considering the “SIX” queens that currently occupy the stage at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, vying for the title of the most victimized wife of Henry VIII. Appropriately titled “SIX,” the musical gives each of these candidates the opportunity to convince their audience with a musical number which describes their individual…

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